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All Web Hosting Companies are definitely not the same


With thousands of web hosting companies in the market it can be difficult, if not impossible, to know which web site hosting company truly provides an excellent hosting solution, together with an reasonable monthy web hosting fee.

When you have an established domain name with a good web hosting company, you can get reports on your traffic and which of your pages your customers are visiting most often, as well as many other statistics.

  • Your web host will charge you a fee for monthly hosting service that ranges from $5 to $20, to the more expensive $50.00 per month. There are usually good discounts if you pay per 6-month or 1-year periods.
  • Always avoid free web hosting services, because you may experience bouts of server downtimes and you are likely to have significant limitations in storage, number of email addresses, FTP upload, etc. And they usually manage to sneak in advertising for themselves on your website. Warning: While hosting your domain on Geocities or AOL may seem like the least expensive way to go, it may also get you dropped from certain search engines. Many search engines ignore domain addresses that reside on these 'free servers' or on the 'cheap' servers.
  • Be sure your web host can accommodate e-commerce and storefronts, wireless capability, bogs, forums, chats, online interactive helps and anything else you want to add onto your site in the guture. It is best to speak to your web developer about your requirements (both now and for the future growth of your website).
  • Estimate what your growth needs are and ensure that this web host can serve you as you grow. The last thing you want to do is change host mid-way unless you absolutely have to do so. Sometimes it will just be an upagrade of your hosting plan (more $).
  • Check your bandwidth (also known as transfer) capability to be sure that, if your website traffic grows rapidly, your customers will not have to wait to download or view information. Or worse, if you run out of bandwidth in any one month, the web hosting company either blocks your site for the rest of the month or charges you for more bandwidth. If your web visitors are going to be downloading a large number of graphics, videos, pdf documents, free e-books, etc. be careful when choosing your host or a specific hosting plan.
  • If you want a successful home based business, here are three major things to look for in a web host company:
  1. Excellent Customer Support: Your web hosting provider should be there for you 24/7 and give you instant access to the technicians you need to solve your problem. Ask them how long it takes for them to typically respond to your problem. A good test is to call them in the middle of the night to check if you get to a live support person. Send them a list of questions and see who responds and their tone and thoroughness and helpfulness of their answers. There should also be a formal method of error reporting via some sort of "support ticket" mail so that a record can be kept of all problems.
  2. A Sound Infrastructure: Check whether they offer a network powered by multiple bandwidth providers to ensure redundancy. Only a few offer a 100% guarantee on their network availability or network uptime. The most common is 98-99%.
  3. Financial Stability: If you're running very critical operations, you can't afford to be with a web hosting company that may not be in business in a few months. Who are they and how many satisfied clients do they have. Can you contact their clients (via their testimonials)? Sign-up initially on a month to month basis for a few months, then if all is okay, change to a discounted longer term.


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